Aaron Wormus has a new review posted today on his blog about one of the latest offerings from the folks at Sams Publishing and written by Christian Wenz - the PHP Phrasebook.

"Look Mom, a PHP book without a chapter on design patterns". Yup, you heard me right, the PHP Phrasebook goes back to the basics of PHP with a focus on functionality, simplicity and security, things which seem to unpresent in a lot of books these days.

The PHP Phrasebook is the first installment of a new series from Sams, which can only be described as "a Cookbook in a Nutshell". [...] As expected, each chapter covers various common tasks (phrases) associated with the subject. [...] The lists of "phrases" within the chapters are not extensive, but a very systematic approach has been taken so that the code is as functional as possible.

Overall, it seems a positive review, Aaron finding it useful for what it is - a resource to pull examples from with very little not to like...